Martin, I get this too when I have auto-login turned on in GDM. I get the 3 error messages you mention, then hald leaks memory something fierce (uses up all 3GB of my machine's memory in a few days).
When I turn off auto-login so I have to spend a few tens of seconds in GDM before Gnome fires up, everything starts up without errors. I'm not sure about the hald memory leak since I only just now figured out this workaround. Hopefully this will be fixed as Upstart matures. -- Failed to initalize HAL. https://launchpad.net/bugs/25931 -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
